According to Rev. Sam Mosteller, who leads the Georgia chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the time for nonviolence in dealing with ostensibly racist police has official passed.

“You know,” he said during a recent rally in Atlanta, “the SCLC stands for nonviolence; but nonviolence hasn’t worked in this instance.”

Though he never specifically instructed his followers to fire upon members of the law enforcement community, he did “advocate” that blacks take advantage of the right to bear arms in response to highly publicized recent police-related deaths.

“There’s a difference in social outrage and social justice,” he said. “How do we fix the problem? And I’m not sure that many of the demonstrations we see today are on the course of solving those problems.”